Headdress

Made of a woven band of fibers with cassowary feathers. Largest. Woven band (of pandanus) has a braided border of black and natural color and the middle has a triangle design. Band is completely edged with a strip of bark fibers made in "knotless netting" technique (like mask, 58-17-20). The complete band is again edged with small grey seeds and there is a strip of them across the middle of the band and a pendant about 6 cm. long at both ends -- one end in red seeds, the other in a long black tube and a red seed. Sash and loop for tying it on. Cassowary feathers are attached to the back of the main band.